The BBC is to air its shelved three-part Agatha Christie drama Ordeal by Innocence with a new actor taking over from Ed Westwick.

Mammoth Screen is to re-shoot scenes with British actor Christian Cooke in the role of Mickey Argyll (reports Broadcast). Cooke’s previous credits include Channel 4 drama The Promise and Film 4 movie Cemetery Junction.

The drama had been completed last year for a Christmas tx, but was pulled following sexual allegations by two women made against Westwick, and replaced in the schedules by The Forge’s two-parter The Miniaturist.

The BBC is to air its shelved three-part Agatha Christie drama Ordeal by Innocence with a new actor taking over from Ed Westwick.

Mammoth Screen is to re-shoot scenes with British actor Christian Cooke (pictured) in the role of Mickey Argyll. Cooke’s previous credits include Channel 4 drama The Promise and Film 4 movie Cemetery Junction.

The drama had been completed last year for a Christmas tx, but was pulled following sexual allegations by two women made against Westwick, and replaced in the schedules by The Forge’s two-parter The Miniaturist.

The BBC is to air its shelved three-part Agatha Christie drama Ordeal by Innocence with a new actor taking over from Ed Westwick.

Mammoth Screen is to re-shoot scenes with British actor Christian Cooke (pictured) in the role of Mickey Argyll. Cooke’s previous credits include Channel 4 drama The Promise and Film 4 movie Cemetery Junction.

The drama had been completed last year for a Christmas tx, but was pulled following sexual allegations by two women made against Westwick, and replaced in the schedules by The Forge’s two-parter The Miniaturist.

The Office co-creator to make solo big screen directorial debut on Fighting with my Family, about British wrestler Paige, co-starring The Rock

Stephen Merchant, who co-wrote and directed The Office with Ricky Gervais, is to take the reins on a forthcoming comedy drama about British wrestler Paige. Fighting with my Family will star Lady Macbeth lead Florence Pugh as the young ring-tosser, alongside former WWE star Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, who also executive produces.

Shooting starts in London and Los Angeles later this month; the film is a co-production between WWE Studios and Film4. Merchant is also writing as well as directing; his first big screen outing since 2010’s Cemetery Junction, on which he collaborated with Gervais.

Writer/director David Lea first won acclaim in 2002 when Half Life, a short film he co-directed for Greenpeace, won First Prize and Special Jury Prize at the young Advertising Awards in Cannes. He went on to direct award winning music promos for artists such as The Offspring, Emiliana Torrini and was nominated for Best VFX at the MTV music video awards for his work on the Radiohead Promo ‘There, There’.

His last short film Storage (staring Tom Hughes – Cemetery Junction, About Time) premiered at the 66th Venice International Film Festival before screening at festivals around the world. And now he’s released his latest short, On Sunday – a film half a decade in the making – shot on location in Cornwall and painstakingly post produced in the weekends and evenings over the next 5 years…

A man and his dog make their routine walk to the isolated clifftops of Cornwall…but this

UK charity Birds Eye View, which previously ran the popular female oriented Birds Eye View Film Festival, is to make its first foray into UK distribution with the November 25 release of Jane Linfoot’s The Incident.

Birds Eye View will jointly release with UK distributor Verve, with the former contributing to the P&A budget.

A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, “The Office” as he now fancies himself a rockstar on the road.

The Office was one of the most successful British comedies of the last twenty years. Its influence can be seen in cringe-coms like Curb Your Enthusiam and documentary-style shows such as Modern Family and, of course, the incredibly popular American remake. It was also one of those very rare shows that didn’t outstay its welcome and went out with a perfect finale. The prospect of that ending being tarnished by a big-screen spin-off set 13 years later made this particular fan quite nervous, but two minutes into the film I was laughing

When five friends embark on a bachelor weekend in Argentina, everyone expects the usual hedonistic business. They do not expect to find themselves stranded, wounded, and hunted through the Andes. But that’s just what happens when an elaborate scheme for revenge goes horribly awry.

The Office is considered one of the best American sitcoms of the 2000s. Though, it was based on a UK comedy that came a few years before it from the creative and hilarious mind of Ricky Gervais. Gervais is reprising his iconic role of ex-boss David Brent in the all-new feature film Life on the Road. It was announced that this upcoming comedy will debut exclusively on Netflix in the U.S. and select international territories sometime in 2017. But it is getting a proper theatrical release in London and surrounding territories this summer. To help celebrate, BBC Films and EntertainmentOne have released a new video, which finds Gervais sliding into the sleeveless white T of his most popular character to date.

David Brent is seen wondering through the woods, wistfully singing the catchy folk song 'Lady Gypsy'. David Brent has released music videos before, the most popular of which was 'Equality Street'.

Hard to believe that July is already upon us, but before we all take off for some summer shenanigans over this long holiday weekend, here’s a look at all the great VOD titles coming our way this month, including one of my favorite films I’ve seen in 2016, Mickey Keating’s brilliant Carnage Park, which is being released by IFC Midnight.

Marauders, the latest from Steven C. Miller (The Aggression Scale, Silent Night) is also making its VOD premiere on July 1st, along with Magnet Releasing's Satanic, and Gravitas Ventures wants us to indulge in some Bachelor Games on July 8th. The haunting and beautiful Japanese animated film, Belladonna of Sadness—something all genre fans should experience at least once in their lifetimes (it’s amazing)—arrives on VOD on July 12th, and the revenge thriller Angels and Outlaws will be released on July 15th.

The feature sees a documentary crew catching up with David Brent 12 years on from the BBC2 ‘documentary’ The Office. Brent is now a travelling salesman, chasing his dream of rock stardom by self-financing a UK tour with his band, Foregone Conclusion.

Shooting on location in and around London and Slough, production will shoot for five weeks and is due to wrap on Dec 18.

In addition to Gervais, the cast includes Ben Bailey Smith as Dom, most recently seen rapping in Brent’s Equality Street and writer-comedian Tom Basden as Dan, Brent’s road manager.

The film sees the introduction of Brent’s new office colleagues including love-struck Pauline (Jo Hartley), his ‘comedic’ partner in crime Nigel (Tom Bennett), his office nemesis Jezza (Andrew Brooke) and his

The trio join the board of the festival, which aims to increase the heritage of British diversity.

Former Bafta rising star Adam Deacon will join the board of the British Urban Film Festival (Buff), which celebrated its tenth year in 2015.

In total, there are seven new board members and patrons, including director Mo Ali, whose feature Montana premiered at Buff in 2014, and actor/director Femi Oyeniran, who appeared alongside Deacon in Kidulthood and had his directorial debut Fresh Off The Boat screen at Buff in 2009.

Sue Caro, the former senior diversity manager of the BBC, is also a new appointee.

We were disappointed when BBC Two axed spy thriller The Game after just one series, but its lead star Tom Hughes has revealed that he wasn't upset about the decision.

The Cemetery Junction actor told Digital Spy: "The Game works as a standalone series. The story was nicely tied up, and it reached a natural conclusion.

"You can always write more stories, and had there been a second series it would have been something I'd love to have done, but as far as I was concerned I was proud of it. I don't feel like it was diminished by not coming back, quite the opposite.

"I loved the job, and I learnt a hell of a lot from it. When I read it, it was always a standalone series for me, and if it came back it would have been a different show in many ways."

Ricky Gervais' Special Correspondent, which he will direct and star in alongside Eric Bana, is yet another film to be housed under Netflix's movie distribution model. Having acquired Cary Fukunaga's much-buzzed Beasts of No Nation and producing new films from Adam Sandler, Pee-Wee Herman and the Duplass brothers, they continue their film plans by acquiring the new comedy, continuing their working relationship with Gervais, which began when they streamed the comedian's BBC sitcom Derek. Variety reports plans are to release Special Correspondent next year worldwide, and according to Karen Barragan, Netflix's spokewoman, the satire will not have a theatrical release, and will premiere exclusively on the site. Does this mean, after their debacles with major theater chains concerning Beast of No Nation and that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel Netflix has turned to releasing their film acquisitions exclusively on their sitec Time will only tell, it seems. "Having shaken up the TV industry,

Bana portrays a struggling New York-based radio journalist who fakes front line war reports from the comfort of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in the heart of Manhattan.

Gervais said, “Having shaken up the TV industry, Netflix is about to do the same to Hollywood. It’s great to be part of the changing future. Ted Sarandos is the new Godfather of entertainment and he made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.”

Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films Intl. has closed key territories on romantic comedy “Dare to Be Wild,” which had its world market premiere at Berlin’s European Film Market.

Starring Emma Greenwell (“Shameless,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”) and Tom Hughes (“Silk,” “About Time,” “Cemetery Junction”), “Dare to Be Wild” centers on an Irish girl from the countryside who challenges the wealthiest of British high society at a world-renowned flower show, bringing her spirited, offbeat style into the traditionally conservative competition.

Film is being sold in the vein of beloved underdog films like “Billy Elliot” and “Slumdog Millionaire.” Key distributors who have bought “Wild” include the Klockworx Co. (Japan), Pinnacle Films (Australia/New Zealand), Cinemundo (Portugal), Gulf Film (Middle East), Forum Film (Israel), Blue Reign (South Africa), Myndform (Iceland) and Captive (airlines).

The last time Ricky Gervais took on writing, directing and co-starring duties for films, we got the double gut punch of The Invention Of Lying (dodgy, underseen) and Cemetery Junction (better, but also mostly ignored). He’ll be hoping for better things with Special Correspondents, for which he’s recruited Eric Bana.Gervais has scripted the film and plans to start shooting in New York and Vancouver next spring. Bana will play a Manhattan-based radio journalist who enjoys privileged status but has slowly being undoing himself thanks to arrogance and his decadent lifestyle.When his bosses decide they’ve had enough, he volunteers to report from the front lines of a conflict – only to fake the dispatches from his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in the heart of the Big Apple, aided and abetted by his technician sidekick, played by Gervais.Sales company Protagonist will be pushing the film to

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